Connectivity Freedom
It took me a long time to do this, but I finally felt enough was enough. It was next to impossible for me to work or do literally anything without connection to the internet. For someone who spends nearly half of his day working on a laptop, staying connected is no more considered a 'luxury' good for me. I feel the amount of money which I am forced to fork out at a coffeeshop for a cuppa just to use the internet is not justified. Besides I need to find such a coffeeshop JUST to connect. Also, while travelling or staying at locations where access to internet is extremely limited...damn you sure wish you had internet access!
As I mentioned before, because of my dependence on my laptop, I decided that it is high time I have wireless broadband. So without wasting much time today, I decided to sign up with Celcom. Believe you me, I had thought long and hard whether I should go for either Maxis or Celcom. Since I was already a Maxis phone subscriber and my phone had 3G connectivity, I felt going for maxis would be a waste. Without trying to sound biased, I personally found their 3G service to be rather poor. Even in prominent spots in PJ, the 3G connection seemed feeble.
And so I felt convinced that probably Celcom would be a better bet. After all they did 'boldly' claim that they are the number 1 wireless broadband service in the country, so I guess I can't go wrong with them.
So far I am quite pleased with their service. Though it's been only a day, I find that I'm able to surf significantly faster as compared to my streamyx connection. However I plan to conduct a real vis-a-vis network connectivity test to really see if there's a significant difference between the two. I need a quick test below and this was the result, definitely more tests need to be done to validate the statistics.
What a week
Never in my life I had longed for the weekend as bad as this week. The pressures at work have been mounting gradually and expectedly over the last few weeks, hence it would justify the inactivity of my blog over the last couple of days.
Heh, such is the life of a project life cycle. It often starts slow, (or in some cases fast), and then it goes through a phase of fast and slow. Now, it's almost close to boiling point, and this past whole week I've been having presentation meetings non stop to present my training deliverables to senior managers.
I have to admit, I'm extremely hessistant to talk about my project work on this space. Workis work, and I learnt a long time ago that blogging about the details of my work could be risky. Hence, it's just best to be succicnt about it. All I can say is that, to a certain degree it has been both frustrating and enjoyable and also challenging at times.
I wish I could things faster, grasp the concepts relating to my project at a faster pace, unfortunately it is not so. Nevertheless working in a petroleum industry has definitely been rewarding in its own right way. Learning how plants operate and getting a taste of the most lucrative industry right now has been in some ways, a privellage. It's something that perhaps maybe one day, will come in handy when it comes to raising my kids and giving them career guidance.
But yeah, whole week presentations are no fun. I can't believe how fast time just flew (and how at times it was just so slow and you were wondering when is it all going to end!!) But the weekend has come, and that too a long one. I hope to blog something over this long break, as I've been to verbalize a couple of thoughts I've been ruminating on over the last couple of days.
It's funny how in such busy days, you somehow are able to think and reflect more, I don't know it always is the case for me...well at least most of the time 
So now you know why there was radio silence...
One Giant Leap
This year has been quite an experience for me. I never would have thought that I would be involved in so many different things, some painful, some exhilarating, some pure adventurous.
I’ve gone from coping with a loved one who was diagnosed with cancer and passed away as a result of it, to exploring a new hobby (photography); from jumping careers and landing in a job that is different from my past work to finally making the effort to take care of fitness and health.
Yes this year, has been truly an year filled with a myriad of experiences. And given the recent developments in my life, I don’t see any signs of slowing down.
As I write this piece on my bed, stacks of magazines on home and deco lay beside my bedside lamp. Yes yours truly is now into the home improvement and deco design! All this only came about fairly recently when we (my brother and I) decided to buy a place of our own. Yes that’s right I’m going to be a home-owner pretty soon. And the sweetest thing about this property is that it’s an actual house with land by the side, which means, gardening could be a future hobby of mine some day!
But for now, I’m soaking everything that’s related to home design like a sponge, starting with the kitchen! Yes I’m a guy and I’m looking at kitchen countertops and cabinets! It’s really quite interesting to broaden your knowledge and learn about something which has always been thought to be a “feminine” thing. Yes I consider, or at least I USED to consider anything to do with the kitchen or home deco and design to be classified under “women interests”.
But the fact that I’m now into it, I think just goes to show that … well I’m growing up! A year or two ago if you were to ask me whether I would be interested in such things, I would have sincerely said “NOPE!”. But I guess sooner or later you gotta grow up and … in the words of the well-known phrase of Russell Peters - BE A MAN .
There are things you just got to do and see to as you get older. I have to be candid though, it’s overwhelming; getting absorbed into this whole home deco ‘project’. I had spent more than an hour today at the bookstore going through books on home improvement and design.
But I gotta admit, like most of the experiences that I’ve gone through this year, (except for mum’s death), it’s enjoying. It’s enjoyable to learn something new, to read up with enthusiasm in your mind as you try to absorb and understand everything as much as you can.
Tomorrow morning, we are going back to the house to meet up with the agent and I’m going to use the time to study in greater detail on the house and the rooms.
Next year is sure gonna be an interesting one
